Disney Lorcana Keyword Abilities Explained

Disney Lorcana cards use keyword abilities — single words like Bodyguard or Evasive that stand in for a longer rule. Once you know them, card text reads much faster. Here's a plain-English glossary of the keywords you'll meet, in alphabetical order.

The core keywords

• Bodyguard — This character may enter play exerted. While it's in play, an opponent must choose a character with Bodyguard to challenge before they can challenge your other characters. A protector.
• Challenger +N — While this character is challenging, it gets +N strength (※). Great on the attack, ordinary on defense.
• Evasive — Only characters with Evasive can challenge this character. Slippery attackers that most of your board simply can't block.
• Reckless — This character can't quest and must challenge each turn if it's able. Powerful but uncontrollable.
• Resist +N — Damage dealt to this character is reduced by N. A durability buff that keeps characters alive through challenges.
• Rush — This character can challenge the same turn it's played (it ignores the usual "drying ink" wait for challenging). It still can't quest that turn.
• Shift N — You can play this character for N by putting it on top of one of your characters with the same name — a discounted alternate cost that also lets you "upgrade" a character already in play.
• Singer N — This character can exert to sing a song with a cost of N or less for free, even if the character itself costs less ink. Songs without spending the ink.
• Support — Whenever this character quests, you may add its strength (※) to another chosen character's strength this turn.
• Ward — Opponents can't choose this character for effects or abilities — they can only interact with it by challenging it. Protection from removal.

Newer keywords

Later sets keep adding to the list. A few you'll run into:

• Sing Together N — Any number of your characters whose costs total N or more can exert together to sing this song for free.
• Vanish — When an opponent chooses this character for an action, banish it.
• Universal Shift N — Like Shift, but you can play this character on top of any of your characters for N, not just one with the same name.

New keywords arrive with new sets, so it's worth skimming a set's cards when it releases — browse the sets to see what each one introduced.

Reading a card at a glance

Keywords sit in a card's text box, usually in bold. When you see one, it's just shorthand for the rules above — the card may also have extra, non-keyword text below it. Knowing the keywords means you can size up a card (and a trade) in seconds instead of re-reading the rulebook.

Next steps

• New to the game? Start with how to start collecting Disney Lorcana.
• Want to know what makes a card rare or valuable? See the rarities guide.
• Browse every set and track which cards you own as you learn them.

Keep this page handy — once these ten or so words click, every Lorcana card suddenly makes sense.